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Independent Trade Schools
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Support people, teaching, and opportunity

Help build a future with more ways forward.

Invest in the people—and the teaching—that a stronger future needs.

AITS’s ambition is to unlock human potential through hands-on education. Your support can help develop the access, instructor capability, and practical learning opportunities behind that mission.

The goal is lasting value: not only a chance for one person to learn, but stronger teaching that can serve the learners who follow.

For foundations and mission-aligned supporters

Help turn a big vision into work that can be measured.

Discuss a defined pilot, educational-access fund, or teaching-resource project. Start with the people it would serve, the activities it would fund, and the evidence it would produce.

For a proposed grant, work with AITS to establish scope, budget, milestones, oversight, and reporting before making a commitment. Restricted support requires agreed terms; these conversations are not new checkout designations.

Discuss a grant or partnership
Across trades · Opportunities to develop

Expand access to hands-on learning.

Talk with AITS about scholarship support, teaching resources, or instructor development beyond a single trade. New funds and programs require defined purposes and approved arrangements before gifts can be designated to them.

Discuss educational support →
Existing fund

Help grow welding scholarships

Discuss supporting access to welding education through the fund’s approved purpose and terms.

Explore the welding fund →
Ready to support AITS?

Give through the
AITS giving service.

One-time and monthly options are available on the current donation page. For a gift intended for a specific fund, contact AITS first.

Continue to AITS giving ↗

Opens AITS’s hosted donation page. Review recipient, amount, frequency, and terms before confirming. Payments are processed through the hosted giving service.

Before you give

Good questions deserve clear answers.

Can I support welding scholarships specifically?

Start a conversation with AITS about the fund’s approved terms and how a designated gift would be recorded. The online giving page does not offer a restricted-fund checkout or promise that a general online gift goes to welding.

Is training the same as a donation?

No. A purchase of instructor training is a service transaction, separate from a charitable gift. Training is in development and enrollment is not open here.

Can I give monthly?

The AITS donation page offers one-time and monthly choices. Review the payment details and recurring-gift terms there before confirming.

Can I establish a lasting scholarship?

Start with an endowment or legacy-giving conversation. A named current-use scholarship is different from an endowed fund; purpose and terms need to be agreed before acceptance.

How can I learn about oversight and results?

Ask AITS for current organizational records, fund terms, and available reports. The impact page distinguishes intended outcomes from results; no unverified award totals are presented here.

Prefer a conversation?

Ask about matching gifts, sponsorship, other assets, or the educational purpose you want to support.

Contact AITS